Rob Wallace

Here's my second piece of the weekend. It's a #COVID update for @truthout that unpacks the cycle of public manipulation in which many of our more established epidemiologists are partaking. truthout.org/articles/expert… 1/

Helene's blackouts are underscoring industry efforts to turn over the power grid to AI. It's more than a money grab. It's a power grab (in both senses). And an exercise in expedient mimesis one also finds in the COVID response. My latest Patreon. patreon.com/posts/power-loss… 1/

The editors of "Land" awarded our Midwest Healthy Ag team first prize for Best 2022 Paper. mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/3/437 @kinparaluchav 1/n

Farming and Event Addendum 2. I continue to follow up on responses to the first F&E series b/c situating the work will help us all: patreon.com/posts/110530873 Of what use is this philosophical work? Does it detract from the political work new agricultures require or supplement it?

Farming and Event Addendum. I took comments on the F&E series to heart. I'll write an easier-to-read piece for the public another day, but I took a whack at summarizing the series here, including how we got started, where we're going, and why. patreon.com/posts/110428705 1/n

Farming and Event 10. Here's the last post in my first series on Alain Badiou's "Being and Event," with a focus on how his work may apply to agriculture and public health. patreon.com/posts/110222608 We finish this round with Badiou bouncing his mathematical ontology off Spinoza. 1/n

Farming and Event 8. In this penultimate post of our first crack at Alain Badiou's "Being and Event", we follow his efforts to apply his set theory ontology to politics and the State. 1/n patreon.com/posts/farming-an…

Farming and Event 7. We continue with Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology, particularly the relationship between the presentable and the void. And how might these help us newly categorize farms, on the one hand, and public health, on the other? 1/n patreon.com/posts/110093981

Farming and Event 6. We continue into the guts of Alain Badiou's mathmatical ontology as it relates to ag and public health. Maurice Godelier, to whom we refer in the post, pictured here. 1/n patreon.com/posts/109999811

Farming and Event 5. We continue with Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology as it relates to ag. patreon.com/posts/109909395 Here we unpack how his set theory differentiates "inclusion" and "belonging" and a food system led by Big Ag and one run bottom-up by local farming communities.

Farming and Event 4. We begin to get into the guts of Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology (and set theory) as it relates to agriculture and public health. patreon.com/posts/109750831 1/n

Farming and Event 3. We continue in our series of posts on applying Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology to agriculture and public health. patreon.com/posts/109648079

Here's the first in an on-and-off series of short Patreon posts on "Farming and Event" I'm planning one-a-day for the next week or so. patreon.com/posts/109529793 1/n 🧵 These are from a notebook I've been keeping reading the first 120 pages of #AlainBadiou's "Being and Event".

In my latest post, I excerpt key sections from my Biden COVID book, tracing the president's exit through the lens of the pandemic as far more than merely a matter of his dementia: patreon.com/posts/biden-as-b… 1/n

A colleague is translating "The Monster Enters", Mike Davis's 2020 COVID update to his 2005 bird flu book, "The Monster at Our Door". The translator asked me to write a forward, the draft linked here, right as H5Nx takes its new jab at pandemicity. patreon.com/posts/104819507

Here's my post on the latest pandemic threat H5N1 spreading through U.S. cows represents. patreon.com/posts/whether-bi… A short thread.🧵

These were the toughest fifteen minutes for me to prepare in a while. If only as I'm no expert in Chagas or leishmaniasis. patreon.com/posts/101337418 Short thread. 1/

Epidemiologist Rodrick Wallace and I are developing a formalism proposing pathogens—viruses, bacteria, parasites—use deep biohistorical epigenetics to archive pathogenic adaptations one era to another. Here's the section I wrote for our white paper: patreon.com/posts/99011046